The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB.
The Minister gave the commendation in Abuja on Saturday, when he monitored the rescheduled test for over 80,000 candidates, who had missed out on the original examination due to various impediments.
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Adamu Adamu, who was in the company of JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede to the Computer Based Test, CBT center located in Mambila Barrack’s, Asokoro, Abuja. expressed delight over the smooth conduct of the exercise.
While noting that no negative incident was recorded in the conduct of the entire UTME, he made a case for a temporary holding place for candidates waiting for the scheduled time of the examination in the future.
JAMB said about 80,000 candidates, who could not sit for the 2023 UTME within their scheduled time owing to no fault of theirs, sat for the rescheduled UTME across the country.
It said candidates affected include those who were verified at their centers but could not sit the examination, those who could not be biometrically verified, and those with mismatched data, among others.
A total of 1,586,765 candidates indicated interest to sit for the 2023 UTME.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
